exective branch
checks & balances
Legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch.
Legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch.
The Constitution granted different responsibilities to each branch of government. This is an example of which constitutional principle?
Seperation of powers
checks and balances
The duties of the Judicial Branch are to decide on the meaning or interpretation of the Constitution and laws. The Judicial Branch protects individual citizens from mistreatment by other branches of government.
Montesquieu's principle of the 'Trias Politica', in which he said that a proper Government should be divided into three branches, equal to each other, independent of each other and monitoring each other; namely the Judicial branch, the Legislative branch and the Executive branch.
The Articles of the U.S. Constitution describe each branch of government.
The legilatve branch is the first to be dicussed in the constitution.
The principle function of the federal judiciary under the U.S. Constitution is to decide cases and controversies. The U.S. Constitution gives the judicial branch of government the ability to determine how laws that are made by Congress apply to any given case or dispute.
The Constitution
Judicial branch